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[QUOTE="CL82, post: 3435436, member: 44"]
Agree, they are a league that started in 2013 that bought the name the Big East.  Much of the "history' fans lay claim to were UConn games, UConn's 5 wins in five days on the way to it's 2011 National Championship, UConn's 6 overtime game vs Syracuse etc.  Those are wins by teams that aren't in the New Big East and never have been.  It's kind of silly, in my opinion, to say that's our history, it happened before we were even formed, those teams have never been in our conference, but we bought it so it ours.  It is as if I found Buster Douglas and paid him to "buy the rights to his championship" and then claimed that I was former heavyweight champion.  Kind of dumb, right?

But I don't really care about it all that much.  Come back in July and I'll pretend the NBE is league the UConn joined in in 1979 twenty-eight years before the NBE was established, but it really won't change the reality of it.  It's just odd to me because I think it makes more sense to celebrate what the conference is today rather than pretend it has a claim to things that happened before it was formed.
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